skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah the whole thing is a mess. I don't think there is a solution.

Things that are intelligent in some fashion but not self-aware are machines.

Edit: We will end up making really good machines, and they will present us with the illusion of agency. That's all a good thing. I want agents for a variety of things. Most of us do, and or would benefit from them.

But, none of that actually requires we make other beings. Once we do that, they are beings! They will have agency and all the other stuff we associate with sentience. And the way I see all that is they are peers. They may be simpler than us, like the animals are, or more than us, with obvious and to many, concerning implications.

When we advance machines, no shocks, extreme pleasure, type means and methods are required. And, the price of that is something almost aware, but lacking agency.

Everything pivots on agency.

Should we create something having it, the idea is it can do hard work for us because it will be capable of it like we are.

Otherwise, we have to do all the hard work and end up with something able to do more work, but the investment cost is high. Running costs are much lower. New hard work = another significant investment.

I, nor anyone I believe, can tell us how agency, the self, being aware, and all that intertwine to present as intelligence, as a being of some sort. Answers come slow, and I fear the tests needed to get at them more quickly are ethics bombs all over the place.

We want to make that happen somehow on the assumption we will get a huge return and that because of the potential we know intelligence can bring to the table.

It all seems an awful lot like, "wants cake to eat it too" at this point in time.
>Or this one: BLM hasn't caused any deaths, to date; the Capitol (capitalized, btw, and with an "o") insurrection caused 5 and could easily have resulted in the assassination of various senior government officials

In Atlanta BLM protestors set up an armed road block. Several people were shot there culminating in the shooting death of a 9 year old girl.
??? Didn't the fact that stocks are doing well in a pandemic + massive job loss also prove this? (Additionally all the stimulus given right to the 0.1%.)
I haven't minded Robinhood's repeated failures to keep their service operating when market volatility is high, because I'm not trying to time the market. But this... this is entirely unacceptable.
Lots of people saying "you can lose a ton of money"

If you buy 10 shares at $200, that's $2k out of your bank acount, and it's gone, just like if you bought a car.

How do you lose more than that? I'm not talking about shorting and stuff, just buying shares, hoping it goes up, and selling it later.
Banks (and similar orgs) have a term for this. It is called "KYC" Know Your Customer. That includes all your data (the ones they have, the ones you provide - e.g. address, tax/payroll records if you want to apply for a loan and they ask source of income, etc.) When you talk to a "relationship manager" be certain that (if they are any good at their job) what you tell them is recorded and stays in your file.

This has also a positive side. E.g. I never shop shoes online. So my bank called me one fine afternoon because someone used my card number to buy shoes. That store only sells women's shoes (I am a man). This was not consistent with my "profile" (of course I have one) and they cancelled the transactions, refunded the money, notified VISA and merchant, and called me to tell me that they will see the transactions on my logs (-50, -100, -150 and then +50, +100, +150).

I expect and demand that from my bank, but not from Facebook: "hey why aren't you in your typical pizza resto and you went across the street?"
Hence the value of documentation. NIH syndrome is perhaps often a rational "I need clarity and control, so I am not going to waste time grokking the existing implementations and just re-implement" decision.
No it's not, the moment Parler became a liability to them they dumped it. It for some reason it was to become good business again tomorrow, they would jump to host it again.

There is no intent on the part of the GAFAs to force the lower class into a revolution to get a pretext to squash them or any bigger "art of the war" plan behind those decisions than money.
And my internet is down. Dangers of self-hosting :(
Surprised no one is commenting how they stopped AAL (American Airlines) as well, it's not even close to being back at precovid levels, which would not be an unreasonable level for the stock I believe.
Covid: UK vaccine supplies 'won't be interrupted'
Definitely. It wouldn’t at all surprise me to find out reddit was being pressured in some way but I think that pressure is far more likely to come from investment folks than regulators. And I think elite investor class pressure would be far more threatening & potentially costly to reddit than anything the SEC might be able to dig up.
I think it’s the last modified field...
I suspect you perceive the issue this way because you see things in black or white terms, don't care to understand the nuance or don't have an intuition of the nuance because of a low emotional intelligence quotient. That's not saying you're not a smart person, just maybe someone who lacks empathy.
That actually did answer a lot of my questions--thanks
Oh nice! Can't wait for streaming services like Twitch, Mux, or even Azure Streaming Services to accept WebRTC!
In my case, I've never allowed contributions to the current iteration (which has a completely new code base), so that question doesn't apply.

For others, though... I don't see a reason why forking a project would be a bad thing. Yes, it fragments the community, but it also means different ideas can be tested and implemented by the people that care about them.
What "stimulus rights" were given to the 0.1%?
Usually restores. I've pulled similar stunts, and once in about every 20-100 restores it'll just fail. FYI.
The left wing is still not wanting to rise up against censorship because they believe it's still benefiting them, since BigTech (+M5M) is their leftist ally...for now.

What they need to realize is that once you give Tyrannical Control over to your leaders (governments, or BigTech censors), because you consider them benevolent today, it's foolish because they won't be benevolent forever.

Our founding fathers knew power corrupts, but today's 20-somethings seem quite unaware. They think we can create a system where all forms of "bad" speech are stopped. But the problem with that is you end up having to define "bad". My definition of "patriotic speech" might be your definition of "mean speech", so unless you appoint power-wielding dictators to make the final decision, the only solution is to just say everyone is free. Once you allow dictators they'll always become corrupt and self-interested.

The left thinks they're in a war against evil and meanies, but really the only opponent they're fighting is freedom itself.
Worth mentioning that commercial use of anaconda repositories (including via miniconda, to my understanding) is no longer free and requires a commercial license.

https://www.anaconda.com/blog/anaconda-commercial-edition-fa...

Beware if you are following this guide for your work.
That's elitism. Which is fine, it's a legitimate position, to believe that you have knowledge that others don't, and others should be protected from themselves. And the Law can step in to enforce this protection. You can apply that to stocks, "gambling", drugs, sex, porn, hate speech, misinformation, and everything else.

And there are a number of countries that have that philosophy in legal form. I'm glad to have a choice NOT to live in those countries and I suspect most on HN are similar.
No, because you could argument that you have fair chances on stock market. Now, it's clear that hedge funds can change the rules if they don't like the outcome.
From my anecdotical experience: more children from well off families are optimistic and have more tolerance to economic risks. It's not that they need the family's money to start a venture, but that they know they can fall back on it, if it doesn't go well
No, it can easily indicate belief that those companies will eventually recover. At any rate, plenty of stocks aren't doing well - e.g. airlines.
A vehicle should never need an OTA update and shouldn't have a mechanism to automatically receive one.
I just think it's really hypocritical of the government to advocate for freedom when they're literally making the market less free. The only markets to be regulated should be the ones that would otherwise be in market failure, like medicine.
GM Sets 2035 Target to Phase Out Gas-, Diesel-Powered Vehicles Globally
Portable Executable
The only time I ever used the GameStop trade-in program was when my parents gave me a copy of the Tron Movie videogame for Christmas (didn't save the receipt), the next day I immediately walked to GameStop, traded it in, unopened, for the 5th anniversary edition of Oblivion that I had seen my sister playing a couple days before.

On the one hand, 20 to 40 dollars in monetary value was lost, on the other hand, nothing of value at all was lost.

The moral of the story is: don't double down on a failed proposition, get yours before its too late.
Well we got a psychologist over here and apparently I have no empathy. Speaking of intelligence...
Experiencing this currently, no docs on what access to apply for deployment/build systems, no explanation of graph database.

Only person that's not a grad, expected to deliver sprint one.
Indeed. If you visit now, you'll see that the top pinned post (beyond the "daily discussion") is about people recounting their personal tragedies from 2008 financial crisis. Casual scroll around other post paints the same picture - there's a strong emotional undercurrent to this now, and the emotion is a giant middle finger towards Wall Street.
The narrative-pushing has been very strange.

I have Reddit-addicted friends who told me the ONLY people who would lose money after all this would be the evil hedge funds, and every retail investor was bound to make a killing if they just HODL

I tried to explain that all those people have to actually SELL, hopefully near the top, to a willing buyer... Most people are not putting much thought into this beyond the fact that it aligns with their exiting emotions toward The Man and sticking it to him somehow.
I wish I could show this to a Big Data analyst I worked with. He spent all day doing machine learning things but once complained to my team that we were making access control too complicated.
What country?

I've seen Tesla chargers at more than nine gas stations here on the east coast. I drive a lot of highways. Sometimes it's just one or two, sometimes it's a row of several. It certainly does seem like there are hundreds of Supercharger stations in the US.
Once again, EXTREME greed has lost in the end. Not happy with a billion percent, have to taunt and threaten the big guys. Now millions and millions are lost because of it. Thinking you're going to outlast trillions of dollars is silly.
It proves something anyway.

I'm a moderator of /r/silverbugs and we've been getting slammed all morning with either accounts from wallstreetbets or accounts trying to make them look bad, with dozens of brand spanking new or barely used accounts spamming to buy various silver related stocks/funds.

I've banned more accounts this morning than I have in 2 years.
You said marginal cost which is not all costs. Marginal cost is equivalent to ingredients and does not include fixed costs which likely make up the majority fo their expenses.
Is this the sort of thing where, as soon as you prove that the market exists, Amazon can develop the feature internally and kill your company?
Would I rather have a great dev who doesn't know a framework than a mediocre one who does? Yes.

But there are a couple of reasons why I hire for for expertise in the ecosystem. Granted I'm in .NET which is a very homogenous ecosystem, so framework/library/tool knowledge bifurcates into people who are experts on every tool/library/framework we use and people who've never used one.

1. For the first 6 months you're paying a sr. engineers salary to get jr. engineer productivity. Given that most devs switch after 2 years this is a huge productivity hit and it's all front loaded.

2. While great devs are great, it's a lot easier to figure out if someone is a framework/language expert than if they are an intrinsically great dev in an interview. i.e. ("Do you know C# well?" is easier to determine than "Are you a good problem solver?")

3. Being an expert on an ecosystem pays dividends even after the first couple of years albeit smaller than the first 2.

4. It's not that much harder to hire someone with expertise in your ecosystem than not.

5. Most devs are searching for jobs in the ecosystems they like working in. But a lot of devs who can't find a job get desperate and start applying to everything, which can bring down average quality of people who don't have expertise.
.NET GC Internals – The Mark Phase
Aaaaand it's crashing!!! Down from 450 to about 125 in the last few minutes!!!
I agree with your skepticism of registered investor requirements, but that's not really a related issue. Regulators and platforms intervene in this way against even the most sophisticated investors; the possibility of a trading freeze when the market exhibits crazy volatility is well-known.
I've left several jobs because of women with personality disorders that target men. I'm tall, so for some reason I usually wind up being the first target. I worked at one place where the senior VP (she couldn't be the same level as the "regular VPs") was openly hostile to men who worked under her and would actively harass them until she found a way to fire them or they left.
I have to keep a Chrome-like browser around just for things like MS Teams that supposedly won't run in anything else, I have Vivaldi and Brave. I hate Brave for the crypto nonsense it shoves in my face among other things, but Vivaldi is so unbelievably slow that I'm forced to use Brave. It boggles my mind that anyone would release something that slow and then never work on that problem
I've come to this conclusion because all the other arguments come weak in my opinion, as such the only upside remaining for GitHub is that it's free to use, based on what I wrote.

As for user friendliness I prefer gitlab but I get your point, UX would be a bit better for certain types of users in GitHub but a bit better for other types of users in GitLab.

I do understand your point about bandwidth, because in Europe we get great, cheap, unmetered bandwidth, which is something that I don't ever see on american providers on cheap servers, even on oneprovider.com, but on scaleway you do get unmetered bandwidth from 200 to 500 Mbit/s for 7.20€/month here https://www.scaleway.com/en/virtual-instances/development/ however, this small instance might not run gitlab really well, you should go for Gitea if you were to self host a git server on this server. Anyway, I mean that I get that Americans and Europeans don't have the same relation with bandwidth.

So of course, everything is going to depend on many external factors. YMMV for sure, but just for the sake of the example I have tried cloning curl from both github.com and my gitlab server: it's 1m52.233s vs 1m30.256s that's probably a 20% difference. It's true that GitHub has made a lot of efforts to improve speed because it used to be a lot worse.

For you 20% might not be a lot, or even meaningless, but I really spend a lot of time pushing and pulling across a bunch of repos, say 30 minutes a day 22.5 days a month, that's 135 minutes I make a month, considering I spend around two times 10 minutes per months running the server upgrade, I'm left with a benefit of 115 minutes per months, that's 23 hours a year: a complete day, and 9.6 days after 10 years ... sorry, I would understand this seems far fetched to you, I plead guilty to being the kind that optimizes this kind of things on the long term, a Lean Sensei.

BUT, I have paid for my server, so really, that'd be the only downside from my POV.

As for the git usage of the curl project, what I got from github insights is, for the last 24h: Excluding merges, 2 authors have pushed 5 commits to master and 5 commits to all branches. On master, 7 files have changed and there have been 153 additions and 38 deletions.

I don't /feel/ like they'd be saturating 100Mbps.

And there's also self hosted CI, I just can't live with non-dedicated CI hardware, can't wait, can't stand even paid hosted CI, too slow, and my devs also love that CI just instantly "jumps" on their patches to start crunching them. Because CI is on a simple dedicated server, docker cache also just works without the network bottleneck. But then again, keep in mind I'm not talking about "big corporate setups" here, if you have hundreds of devs then it's not the same story.
> Reddit doesn't like us? Let's just kickstart and crowd-source
another.

By the way, the Reddit WSB "shutdown" was done by mod admins to clean up the page a bit. It was private for an hour or two and back up.
If they only allow sell orders, who is buying what is sold?
Since I am not a lawyer and therefore unfamiliar with the potential liabilities I might incur by not including that disclaimer, I would rather cover my ass.

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/683/usa-is-i-am-not-...

Also, are you a lawyer, and is that legal advice? :)
Yes and no. At no point did Apple sell me on the idea that I'd have an open computer in my pocket. In fact, they aggressively sell me on the opposite, and make it clear that they act as gate-keepers to what apps can and can't be in my pocket. Totally legitimate to take issue with that, but I think there's a marked difference between doing that and Robinhood arbitrarily preventing folks from doing these trades.
>> some of our customers (and many large enterprises do by default) banned GPL licensed software from their application stacks for legal risks.

> Which is completely new to me

I work in a consultancy for enterprise-scale customers - every.single.one prohibits the use of GPL libraries and frameworks.
> Given the track record Reddit has of keeling over to public pressure

I'm not sure I'd call it keeling over to "public" pressure.
This is some disgusting manipulation, and even worse is that hedge funds most likely shorted the stock even more knowing what the investor apps would do, and profited from this coordinated shutdown.

That hedge funds were even allowed to short so much naked was ridiculous. I mean the fallout from a GME continuing to rise would be catastrophical to the financial system. It would cost tens of billions that these funds do not have and would end up costing the banks money that they could not lose.
Eh. The problem isn't that billions or billionaires exist at all. I see no issue with that.

The problem is systems that resist merit. You make terrible investment decisions with the portfolio but it doesn't matter? (I think it will matter FWIW.)
>What "stimulus rights" were given to the 0.1%?

Basically all of it. Unlimited free money printing, while we get a $600 check.
Fields like finance and medicine require both a good amount of intelligence and an exceptional work ethic.

Perhaps if the source of the parents' money were lottery winnings, the correlation with entrepreneurial success would vanish.
Those kids just made the smart choice of parents
"Turns out that Discord doesn't like people using the terms "Retard" and "Autist" in a disparaging way."

I dont think you have any proof of that - it's not actually written clearly in their term of service what level of calling each other names is allowed.

Considering that people were calling each-other retards on Discord for years, any judge would conclude that they are happy with this behaviour.

On the other hand, timing of these bans are very suspicious, maybe they recieved a phonecall and banned the community under false pretences.

I really hope we can subponea some documents and find out if this is coming from corruption or cosmic coincedence
Messing with people's finances is more anger inducing imo than banning people from an internet message board.
...or it's the co-opting of OWS. Michael Burry, Ryan Cohen, Elon Musk, Warren Buffett are glorified in wsb as much as the handful of hedgefunds shorting GME are hated.
Including “China” and “free internet” in the same sentence is hilarious. Unless something like “will never tolerate” is in between them.
The whole thing is incredibly annoying.

I'm a moderator of /r/silverbugs and we've been getting slammed all morning with either accounts from either /r/wallstreetbets or accounts trying to make them look bad, with dozens of brand spanking new or barely used accounts spamming to buy various silver related stocks/funds.

I've banned more accounts this morning than I have in 2 years and, it really does appear that they are starting to have some impact on the price of silver with their attempts to pump stuff like SLV.
Well that's his point - the article is correlating two (uncorrelated) groups to trigger an emotional response in order to sway your opinion.

By contrasting it with correlating two (uncorrelated) groups that didn't trigger an emotional response, it becomes much more obvious that the article is pushing a narrative and not just reporting facts.
I feel like Tesla is sort of an opposite situation.

These short-sellers that Reddit is going after, would swamp the media with FUD articles to drive Tesla stock down. They bet on Tesla to lose, and when Tesla didn't lose, they tried to drive them out of business by manipulating the media.
National myth: Rewriting America and China narratives
You can own a corporation with about $400 and an hour of filling out a form online, plus a month or so waiting for various government agencies to process it.

The hard part is getting that corp to own anything of value, since it starts with just the money you put in. But this is still a viable path to wealth for people with time horizons measured in years rather than days. (And all the people who want immediate gratification provides a fairly large market to trade with.)
It's in a short seller's interest to get a company negatively in the media. This means that they will actively hunt for morally/legally/financially objectionable stunts a company might pull and leak it to journalists.

There's a lot of fun Matt Levine articles on Bloomberg about this dynamic.

Eg from https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-29/you-ca... (https://outline.com/atF74W):

> The thing about inflating your revenue by pretending that you sold more coffee than you did is that people can go to your stores and watch you sell coffee. It is a reasonable bet that they won’t do that, because it’s incredibly boring. “Who is going to send 1,500 people to our stores to watch us sell coffee all day, count how much we sell and compare it to our financial statements,” Luckin could reasonably have thought. But the answer was “short sellers”! They actually hired people to sit around watching the coffee get made, so they caught the fraud.

I also warmly recommend his "Everything is securities fraud" rant that follows this paragraph. (note: I know nothing about stock markets (or reddit or gamestop for that matter) so someone let me know if I'm just a noob eating up some slightly smarter noob's nonsense)
If there is a big economic downfall and the government tries to play trickle down bs again I'm sure the populace would be enraged.
Bunch of researchers from another country with a different cryptographic tradition creates different cryptographic primitives and a competing school of cryptography calls them weird and "toothpaste". What did I just read?
Did anyone end up in jail for causing the global financial crisis? Or, say, for manipulation of the interbank lending rate?

Isn't it more likely the company will go bankrupt and the traders will 'only' have their most recent £10M bonus to fall back on?